The structures of Gal 2:4 and 2:6
Moon-Ryul Jung
moon at sogang.ac.kr
Tue Apr 23 10:42:08 EDT 2002
> > Gal 2:4-5 reads:
> >
> > 4 DIA DE TOUS PAREISAKTOUS YEUDADELFOUS hOITINES PAREISHLQON
> > KATASKOPHSAI THN ELEUQERIAN hHMWN [...]
> > 5 hOIS OUDE PROS hWRAN EIXAMEN THi hUTOTAGHi hINA hH ALHQEIA TOU
> > EUAGGELIOU DIAMEINHi PROS hUMAS.
> >
>> Paul seems to re-iterate in Gal 2:1-10 what is described in Acts 15.
Acts
> 15:1 tells us about some people from Judea who came to Antioch and required
> the Gentile believers to be circumcised.
[Moon] The difficulty with this interpretation is that the meeting
described
at Acts 15 is a public conference, while the meeting described in Gal 2 is
a private one.
> v. 4-5 is in my analysis a flashback that gives the background for why the
> journey and consultation was needed in the first place. DE is the normal
> Greek connector indicating flashback and background comment, and to
> translate it with English BUT is very misleading.
[Moon] The function of DE as the indicator to flashback and background
comment
is what I never paid sufficient attention to. But "flashback and
background
comment" seems to be too strong. I thought that DE describes simply
different aspects to the theme being developed by the preceding discourse.
> The DE in v. 6 would then bring us back to the storyline from the flashback.
> It continues the thread from v. 2-3 about the details of the discussion with
> the apostles in Jerusalem. The function of DE from a discourse perspective
> is to introduce change, and that change may be a shift from storyline to
> background and back again.
>
[Moon]
Again the function of DE as the indicator to returning to the mainline
seems
to be too strong. Is there any evidence to this use of DE? MEN ... DE ...
is used to describe related but different aspects of a given situation.
Isn't DE alone a weaker form of MEN ... DE in that the preceding discourse
plays the role of the clause introduced by MEN?
Moon
Moon R. Jung
Sogang Univ, Seoul, Korea
> Iver Larsen
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